From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
19th Feb. 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/618, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
James Bevington
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
20th Feby 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/B/95, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
20th Feb. 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/619, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/970, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
Date:
20 February [1856]
Source of text:
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/37
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 60-61]
- Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 182-183]
Summary:
Departure from Sarawak, leaving Charles behind; admirable character of Sir James Brooke; slow healing of injured foot; good collection of insects in Borneo; Sims' photography business; Fenton's Crimea photographs; justification of Crimean war.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
William Colchester
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
21 February 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 99
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Emerson Tennent
Date:
21 February 1856
Source of text:
TNA MT10 / 128, file M2082
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Feb 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/868, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1856
Source of text:
DAR 98: A128–A132
Summary:
Opposition to EB within the Asiatic Society.
Possibility of establishment of a zoological garden at Calcutta.
Has seen Gallus varius alive for the first time.
Will procure domestic pigeons for CD; could CD pay for them by returning hardy creatures, such as macaws and marmosets, which EB can sell for a high price in India?
Does not recall his authority for genealogy of the asses of Oman. If a genuine wild ass exists EB believes it will be in south Arabia.
Infertility of Irish and Devon red deer.
Details of an unusual species of wild dog.
Fertility of canine hybrids. General tendency toward hybrid sterility.
Has skins of hybrid Coracias and the parent species.
Wide-ranging species; skua found in Europe and Australia, but not in the tropics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Thomson
Date:
Saturday 23rd Feb.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/5/1550-1, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
23 February 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 292
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Debus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb 24, 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/7/2412-14, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1856
Source of text:
DAR 98: A126–A127
Summary:
There is a possibility of establishment of a Government Museum at Calcutta, with which the Asiatic Society Museum would be merged. EB would like the curatorship but fears other possible applicants. Asks CD to represent him to W. H. Sykes.
Discusses the ancients’ awareness of various cats as deduced from the etymology of their names.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[26 Feb 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 8
Summary:
Writes of WED’s progress at school and events at home.
Discusses pigeons, with which he is "getting on splendidly".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Lord Wrottesley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 February 1856
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Manby
Date:
27 February 1856
Source of text:
WIHM MS 7844/073
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 February 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.217
Summary:
Is sending C. T. Beke's certificate for his signature. Hopes his health is still improving.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Manby
Date:
28 February 1856
Source of text:
WIHM MS 7844/074
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
W. H. Miller
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
28 February 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 102
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
29 Feb [1856]
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/45)
Summary:
Preparing paper on seed-soaking for Linnean Society ["Action of sea-water on seeds", Collected papers 1: 264–73]. Wants to use MJB’s results. Lost ardour when he found seeds would not float.
Has grown MJB’s purest pea seeds and got a few variants. Gärtner’s experiments suggest direct action of pollen, but CD thinks it is "mere variation".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project